Sierra Leone Stakes Next Oil Frontier Claim

Sierra Leone Stakes Next Oil Frontier Claim

African countries have recently started making more and more headlines with their plans to develop local oil and gas reserves despite strong opposition from foreign environmentalist organisations and international lenders. The latest to join the oil and gas club is Sierra Leone. And it has big plans for its hydrocarbons. The small Western African state earlier this month concluded a round of seismic research that it now hopes would lure internat…

Sierra Leone to Auction 60 Offshore Oil and Gas Blocks at the End of the Year

Sierra Leone will delay its new oil and gas auction until the end of the year as the country awaits results from a large-scale seabed survey that has just concluded — the first such study in over ten years, according to Reuters. Last month, the company GeoPartners, together with the national petroleum authority, spent six weeks studying the seabed off the coast of Sierra Leone to reduce risks for companies that may wish to explore for oil and ga…